you are one of president clinton's senior domestic policy advisers. i wonder how that experience has affected your service on the court. , the chiefus have justice worked in the reagan white house and the reagan justice department. justice scalia worked in the reagan justice department and then i worked in the clinton the clintonand justice department. maybe i am missing someone. justice alito worked in the justice department. were the justice and i only people who worked in the white house. i think it is a really different job. that was about four years of my life and was probably the equivalent for my colleagues. it is just a really different job. the great things about lawyerly careers, i know one of the great things about my career is that different points of my life i have one different hats and done different things and had different responsibilities and obligations. when you are working in the --te house for the president and i worked as a lawyer at a olicy person you're mostly thinking about policy and politics. as a lawyer, you are thinking a